Burrington is located within North Devon local authority area. Historically it formed part of North Tawton Hundred. It falls within Chulmleigh Deanery for ecclesiastical purposes. The Deaneries are used to arrange the typescript Church Notes of B.F.Cresswell which are held in the Westcountry Studies Library. The population was 755 in 1801 669 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 161 adult males signed the Protestation returns.

A parish history file is held in Chulmleigh Library. You can look for other material on the community by using the place search on the main local studies database. Further historical information is also available on the Genuki website.

Maps: The image below is of the Burrington area on Donn's one inch to the mile survey of 1765.

On the County Series Ordnance Survey mapping the area is to be found on 1:2,500 sheet 31/14 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 31SW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SS638167. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SS61NW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 127, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 180. Geological sheet 309 also covers the area.

Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), included by kind permission of the copyright holder:

BURRINGTON lies on high ground, with beautiful landscapes in all directions. The church (All Saints) is entirely of early 16th century date and is interesting. The granite S. arcade is lofty and severely beautiful, the tracery aisle windows good. The aisle also has a fine wagon-roof with two rows of angels along its entire length, carved bosses and wall-plates with trailing foliage, and moulded ribs. The nave roof, though not so good, is worth notice. The rood-screen, of eight bays, finely carved, with vaulting and cresting complete on the vestry side. It is an exceptionally beautiful screen, though badly painted, and bears some resemblance to those at Lapford and Atherington. The font is Norman, much restored; the alter rails are good Jacobean. Callard, 1 quarter m. W., was the home of a family of that name for some centuries down to Elizebethan times.